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Thursday, December 31, 2009

Ken Kohl "Purposefully" Screwed The Blackwater Case???

Excerpts:
"The case against the five men fell apart because, after the shooting, the State Department ordered the guards to explain what happened. In exchange for those statements, the State Department promised the statements would not be used in a criminal case. Such limited immunity deals are common in police departments so officers involved in shootings cannot hold up internal investigations by refusing to cooperate.

The five guards told investigators they fired their weapons, an admission that was crucial because forensic evidence could not determine who had fired.

Because of the immunity deal, prosecutors had to build their case without those statements, a high legal hurdle that Urbina said the Justice Department failed to clear. Prosecutors read those statements, reviewed them in the investigation and used them to question witnesses and get search warrants, Urbina said. Key witnesses also reviewed the statements and the grand jury heard evidence that had been tainted by those statements, the judge said."

"The Justice Department set up a process to avoid those problems, but Urbina said lead prosecutor Ken Kohl and others "purposefully flouted the advice" of senior Justice Department officials telling them not to use the statements."

So who is this guy Ken Kohl?????

Didn't he blow the Anthrax case too?

What gives here?
Later note: Records at the Baptist Press indicate that Kenneth C. Kohl was advising the New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary trustees on March 21, 1990.

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My guess: Kohl is a Karl Rove approved Justice Department apparatchik. At first I suspected Judge Urbina, but his action with the Uighers and general support of the quaint notion of habeas corpus in the Gitmo cases have me, like you, eyeing the prosecutors. Am on Kohl's trail and will report back in.

Long long ago, 1974 actually, a Cobra pilot friend of mine from Nam tried to convince me to go with him to Iran and work for the Shaw's Army as a "consultant". I was amazed, stupefied, at how much they would pay me annually and as a sign-up-bonus.

But...My was wife was pregnant and I was completing a degree at the time and so I didn't go. Hell, I didn't even tell Wife about it until much later. Had I been single, I would have probably gone with him.

My friend went. I have no idea how that worked out for him. I have never heard from him.

"Washington D.C. - Professor Palmera appeared calm and confident as he entered the courtroom in an orange prison jumpsuit, Jan. 28 He listened with interest as U.S. prosecutor Ken Kohl repeatedly called him a ‘terrorist’ as he argued that Palmera should receive a life sentence.

Ricardo Palmera, who served as a peace negotiator for Colombia’s largest rebel group, the FARC (Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia) and is now a political prisoner held the U.S., had faced Prosecutor Kohl at past trials. In two previous trials, prosecutor Kohl failed to prove terrorism charges against Professor Palmera.

In the last case, Kohl was caught colluding with the judge and the judge had to step down. Kohl’s cheating set the stage for Judge Lamberth to take over. In the retrial, Judge Lamberth approved dozens of prosecution witnesses, while not allowing Palmera even one. U.S. prosecutor Kohl’s sentencing arguments were outrageous distortions."

Now this is coming from a weird source: www.fightbacknews.org (a very pro-Palmera group)

I can only find other vague references to a "Judge Hogan" recusing himself because of ex-parte collusion with Kohl to "politicalize" the case in any other context.

So I give this a "D" validity at best. So hold this in abeyance until Kohl gets better revealed.

Kind of surprised the MSNBC or some other left leaning new group hasn't connected the dots.

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